Tips for illustrating height within photographs
Use a person in the photo to show height
A few months back my partner and I visited Yarrangobilly Caves in NSW, Australia. Both being avid photographers, it’s useful to return home and compare photographs. This time, there was a particular shot where my own image miserably failed to show the humongous size of the caves. On the other hand, my partners photograph showed it perfectly, as demonstrated below.
As you can see, by placing a person in the scene helps to really keep the overall image in perspective. Now compare it to my photo below that doesn’t include a person. The actual entry to the cave itself looks quite small.
Another time I can recall was when we were photographing a tall tree. Like many photographers we pointed our camera up towards the sky to try and capture the height. Wrong! As you can see from the result below, we would have been better off placing a person in the shot to achieve perspective across the entire scene.
Alternatively, in the image below it is easy to see how tall the tree’s are by comparing them to the person standing in the front.
